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xdkyx | 3 months ago

Luxembourg is an outlier and more of an edge case, then something that can be dissected and applied to other countries/cities.

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freen|3 months ago

Free transit: IMPOSSIBLE!!!

Free roads and highways: GOOD AND NATUAL

The political class are not typically utilizers of public transit: hence even the best attempts are structurally challenged from the outset.

If that isn’t factored into your analysis, you are missing a huge reason why it sometimes fails and sometimes succeeds.

Broken_Hippo|3 months ago

Of course the rhetoric is such. One of those things helps poor folks more than the others.

potato3732842|3 months ago

>Free roads and highways: GOOD AND NATUAL

Every time you fuel up a vehicle you are paying a "fare" to use the road. The fare is subsidized (just like with the bus), but it is very much there and not zero.

Gud|3 months ago

Why?

soerxpso|3 months ago

Luxembourg has insane tax revenue per capita because of its status as an international tax haven. A program that might be hardly noticeable on Luxembourg's budget could put a big dent into the budget of an American city.

ciceryadam|3 months ago

Because many people commute to Luxembourg from Germany/Belgium/France. AFAIK the cross-border commute complicates things.